President Donald Trump is considering antitrust actions against Silicon Valley giants as a means of regulation, he told Axios on HBO in an interview aired Sunday.
“I do have a lot of people talking about monopoly when they mention those three in particular,” Trump said on Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The president continued, “we are looking at [antitrust] very seriously … Look, that doesn’t mean we’re doing it, but we’re certainly looking and I think most people surmise that, I would imagine.”
Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with Silicon Valley, which he views as antithetical to conservative free expression. The president told The Daily Caller in a recent interview he believes Facebook and Google are interfering in the U.S. election on behalf of the Democratic Party. – READ MORE